'JZ BULBOUS-ROOTED FLOWERS, 



thofs taken up at the proper time, in their 

 dormant ilate, in Summer, &c. fhortly after 

 they have done flowering, but fhould be all 

 planted again, both main roots and off-fets, 

 foon after being removed. 



The propagation or method of encreafing 

 all the approved forts of bulbous a)id tuberous 

 roots, is by the ofF-fets or young fide-bulbs, 

 5:c. emitted annually from the main ones, 

 and by which they, in moft kinds, propagate 

 m great plenty, proper to take oft in Sum- • 

 mer, &c. when the roots are taken up after 

 ihey have done flowering, either every year, 

 or once in two or three, 'according as they 

 havecncreafed more or lefs; though the more 

 curious varieties of hyacinths, tulips, polyan- 

 thos narciffus, jonquils, Peifian and other 

 bulbous iriles, anemones and ranunculufe5,&c. 

 may generally be taken up, and the oft-fets 

 feparated annually, both to obtain the greater 

 tncreafe, and that they may not impoverifti 

 the parent bulbs ; but in moft of the common 

 forts of thefe and others, they may remain 

 two or three years, or till more confiderably 

 mulciplied; when, as the ofF-fets will then be 

 crouded, prefs againll and impede the growth 

 of one another, as well as that of the parent 

 4-oois, thry Ihould be feparated: and this, in 

 -sll cafes, fliould be generally performed in 

 the proper feafon, by taking up the roots foon 

 after the decay of the flowers, as already ex- 

 plained, and from which detach the progeny 

 of ofF-fets, to plant, the fmallcr one* in beds 

 i)v ihemfelves till of proper iizc to flower ; or 



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